{"id":26755,"date":"2019-11-06T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26755"},"modified":"2020-05-04T08:50:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T12:50:38","slug":"reverse-gatsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/06\/reverse-gatsby\/","title":{"rendered":"REVERSE GATSBY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I\u2019m Jay <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gatz, but in reverse<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span> You see, I moved from New York to the Midwest, specifically to Cleveland, and I changed my name. I used to be Justin Jacobson. Now I&#8217;m Bill Jones. Of course, I go by \u201cWilliam J. Jones,&#8221; too, whenever that seems appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>I grew up in Manhattan at the San Remo, right next door to where Lennon was shot. My parents owned an art gallery. In fact, they owned two art galleries &#8212; one in Switzerland and one in New York. I ran the Zurich gallery for a while and met all the big names. But I got sick of New York and the entire gallery scene. Why? It was too effete. I wanted to hang out with &#8220;real people&#8221; &#8212; real estate guys, for example. I went to Ohio University. After college, I rented a one bedroom in Cleveland for $850. Tricked out, too. Marble countertops, dishwasher. I&#8217;ve been in Cleveland a couple years.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to buy up\u00a0the town &#8212; Cleveland. I can probably buy it for what my parents\u2019 NYC apartment is worth. I&#8217;ve only made two errors in Cleveland: 1) I guessed wrong that a milk chute is for seltzer delivery, and 2) I didn&#8217;t know what <em>tree lawn <\/em>meant.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Cleveland is<\/strong><\/span> a cool town. Like Hoboken. Urban, but not too urban.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>[fake profile]<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m Jay Gatz, but in reverse. You see, I moved from New York to the Midwest, specifically to Cleveland, and I changed my name. I used to be Justin Jacobson. Now I&#8217;m Bill Jones. Of course, I go by \u201cWilliam J. Jones,&#8221; too, whenever that seems appropriate. I grew up in Manhattan at the San [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26755"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27672,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26755\/revisions\/27672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}